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Induced synthesis ZnO nanoparticles using novel amphiphilic Zinc precursor complex with mono-octadecyl cis-butene dicarboxylate

BING YAN1,* , HONGXIA ZHU1

Affiliation

  1. Department of Chemistry, Tongji University, Siping Road 1239, Shanghai 200092, China

Abstract

Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles were synthesized using novel amphiphilic zinc complexes with mono-octadecyl cis-butene dicarboxylate (MAO) as precursors, for which can form nanosized micelle-like aggregates by special self-assembly. The amphiphilic zinc complex was fabricated with MAO which was achieved by the modification of maleic anhydride with long chain 1-octadecanol. The synthesized ZnO samples were further studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Diffuse reflectance ultraviolet–visible spectra (DRUVS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) and Transmission electron microscopiy (TEM). Results show that the nanosized ZnO semiconductor material exhibits the hexagonal (wurtzite) crystal structure and presents regular and well dispersion nanoparticles with average particle size in the range of 40-70 nm. Besides, the corresponding photoluminescence (PL) demonstrates a strong and dominant peak at 395 nm with a suppressed and broad green emission at 545 nm, suggests that the ZnO nanostructures have good optical properties with very few structural defects..

Keywords

Amphiphilc molecular precursor, Nanoparticle, Microstructure, Photoluminescence.

Submitted at: Sept. 21, 2007
Accepted at: Dec. 7, 2007

Citation

BING YAN, HONGXIA ZHU, Induced synthesis ZnO nanoparticles using novel amphiphilic Zinc precursor complex with mono-octadecyl cis-butene dicarboxylate, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 9, Iss. 12, pp. 3734-3739 (2007)